{"id":343175,"date":"2026-06-19T18:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343175\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:15:11","slug":"juneteenth-2026-austin-celebrates-with-annual-parade-festival-in-east-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343175\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth 2026: Austin celebrates with annual parade, festival in east Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Hundreds of Austin residents gathered for the annual Juneteenth Parade and Park Festival Friday morning in east Austin to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States and celebrate African American history and heritage in central Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The parade began at 10 a.m. near East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and traveled through east Austin, concluding near Rosewood Neighborhood Park, where the festival will continue throughout the day with live entertainment, vendors, family activities and cultural programming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vibrant celebration of freedom and culture honors the history of East Austin and uplifts the communities that have occupied its neighborhoods,\u201d organizers said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/body-found-in-lake-pflugerville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Body found in Lake Pflugerville<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Juneteenth, a portmanteau of &#8220;June&#8221; and &#8220;nineteenth,&#8221; is celebrated annually to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas. <\/p>\n<p>On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston to announce that the Civil War had ended, and that the enslaved were finally free.<\/p>\n<p>Juneteenth was officially made a U.S. federal holiday in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Hundreds of Austin residents gathered for the annual Juneteenth Parade and Park Festival Friday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-343175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}